The makers of the We-Vibe, a line of vibrators that can be paired with an app for remote-controlled use, have reached a $3.75 million class action settlement with users following allegations that the company was collecting data on when and how the sex toy was used ( Read more... )

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Since 2004, I’ve marked the end of each year by collecting the best of the worst in media errors and corrections. Now that Regret the Error has moved to Poynter Online, it seems fitting to kick things off in my new home with this detailed look at the major incidents and uh-ohs of the year that was. This is what it looks like when journalism and ( Read more... )

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Pediatrician Who Raped Kids Gets 14 Life Sentences
The Delaware pediatrician convicted of abusing or raping 85 girls and one boy over more than a decade will spend the rest of his life in prison.

A judge sentenced Earl B. Bradley Friday to 14 life sentences for 14 counts of first-degree rape,reports delawareonline.com.

Bradley was also sentenced to ( Read more... )

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 Christian fundamentalist Rev. Grant Storms, 53, who protests at the largest gay event in New Orleans, the Southern Decadence festival, was arrested on Friday afternoon for allegedly masturbating in his van while watching children at Lafreniere Park in New Orleans.

Mr Storm claims he was actually urinating in a bottle on his lunch break, but two ( Read more... )

WikiLeaks cables: Vatican refused to engage with child sex abuse inquiry
Leaked cable lays bare how Irish government was forced to grant Vatican officials immunity from testifying to Murphy commissionHeather Brooke ( Read more... )

The government has proposed changes to the law which will prevent gay and atheist campaigners arresting the Pope when he visits the UK in September.

According to Sky News, Whitehall officials were said to be "seriously concerned" that figures such as Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens and Peter Tatchell could attempt to bring a private ( Read more... )